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How to Choose a Quality Third-Party Resource

Faculty and students alike have access to an array of third-party resources. However, searches for quality resources can quickly become overwhelming and cumbersome. Despite the number of options, we must not lose sight of the implications of our choice.

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Office Hours—An Often Underused Key to Student Success

Office hours, when implemented well, can be an essential component to students’ success. In this tip, we will define a multitude of purposes for office hours that can be adapted to fit you and your students’ needs, ways to implement them, and how to communicate expectations to students.

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Using VoiceThread for Course Portfolios

A course portfolio can be easily implemented and benefit student learning regardless of discipline.  A few of these benefits include the practice of self-reflection, ownership of learning, and fostering a growth mindset.  

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Learning through Community Engagement

Community engagement is a subset of experiential learning that asks students to work with an organization and apply concepts learned in class to a real problem or issue within a community.

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Engaging Students through the Adobe Creative Jam

The Adobe Creative Jam provides a unique opportunity for students to participate outside of class in project-based, team-based, and design-based learning activities. 

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